1,669 words, and my old writing pace of two hours per installment, despite chatting to fyrie in the meantime = not bad :)

Now, if it only were better words...

I did Nanowrimo before - in 2003 and 2005, winning both times. Both contributed a lot to my momentum for writing for the years after that, and I think after the past two years (which were mostly due to work-stress), I'm due for another boost ( Read more... )

I saw Dnevnoy Dozor, the sequel to Night Watch, today. I liked the original movie for its slightly mad take on urban fantasy, Russian-punk style, even if the plot could use work, and I like the original books (completely different from the movies ( Read more... )

Eva Green is the new Bond girl. I'm quite amused, since I used an uglified (longer nose, narrower lips and eyes etc) version of her for the heroine of my NaNo. This reminds me - I should update that with the next bits. And plot the bits after that, after which there will be the grand finale that's mostly plotted, and finally Kirill and Rachel can ( Read more... )

this is what Rachel from Flowers Of The Frost wears when she's dressing UP

(Honestly. A self-respecting mutant witch serial killer shouldn't squee quite so loud. Damn muses.)

Yowza.

Also, Part 11 up. And an update to the cast list - I should have put up Simon's photo two chapters back, really.

Off-hand, it looks like an 80K word thing, 70K if I snip lots. I want to be done before Christmas. Then, I'll start proofreading :P

It's 3AM, and with 2,885 words in chapter 10 I'm all caught up again, with a few dozen words to spare. I think I might actually be able to finish NaNo in a sane manner, unless you discount things like writing at 3AM.

Anyway, that's not because of NaNo, it's because I have vampires on the brain.


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I'm trolling babynames sites, and there are such a lot of names that are just begging to be used in fiction. Aldona, Indré, Frauke, Berenika, Larissa - why don't they appear more often? It seems like anyone writing, say, HP fic uses the same three names all over again. Why not have a Nicodemus Malfoy, Theodosia Black, Malvina Weasley? Dare to leaf ( Read more... )

Jonathan Carrol's that rare bird, an author whose blog I enjoy more than his books.

This poem has got to go into Flowers of the Frost. Possibly as the last page.

A week to go, and after being blocked yesterday I'm on track again. Part 8 is up, I've finally found Natalie's voice, and I know where to take this. Next part is all action extravaganza, and it'll stay like that until... uh, the end?

(Okay, there'll be some shippy stuff too. But mostly ass-kicking.)


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